Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 March 1998
- ISBN 9780195119190
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
65 million years ago a large asteroid or comet collided with the earth and caused a worldwide catastrophe. The collision caused a blast twenty million times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb, punching a hole ten miles deep in the earth. Thousands of species of plants and animals were obliterated, including the dinosaurs, some of which may have become extinct in a matter of hours.
In Impact, Gerrit L. Verschuur offers an eye opening look at such catatrophic collisions with our planet. Perhaps more important, he paints an unsettling portrait of the possibility of new collisions with earth, exploring potential threats to our planet and describing what scientists are doing right now to prepare for this awful possibility.
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Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Killer Strikes
The Saga of the Chicxulub Crater
Solar System Debris
Something About Comets
The Birth of the Earth
The Nineteenth Century Rumblings
Comet Impacts in History
On the Edge of Extinction
Reconstructing the Crime
Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism?
Craters and Tsunamis
Offering Odds on Impact
The Great Comet Crash of 1994
The Aftermath
The Search
Dodging the Asteroids?
Our Place in Space
